15 Facts About Joint Staff

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Joint Chiefs of Staff is the body of the most senior uniformed leaders within the United States Department of Defense, that advises the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on military matters.

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Joint Staff is a headquarters staff in the Pentagon, composed of personnel from each of the six service branches, that assists the chairman and the vice chairman in discharging their responsibilities and is managed by the director of the Joint Staff.

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The Joint Staff Board acting as an "advisory committee" was created to plan joint operations and resolve problems of common rivalry between the two services.

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Yet, the Joint Staff Board accomplished little, as its charter gave it no authority to enforce its decisions.

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The Joint Staff Board lacked the ability to originate its own opinions and was thus limited to commenting only on the problems submitted to it by the secretaries of war and Navy.

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The mission of the General Joint Staff was to develop plans for mobilization for the next war; the US was always designated "blue" and potential enemies were assigned various other colors.

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The Joint Staff Board had little influence during the war and was ultimately disbanded in 1947.

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Each of the members of the original Joint Staff Chiefs was a four-star flag or general officer in his service branch.

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Joint Staff leads the meetings and coordinates the efforts of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, comprising the chairman, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of staff of the United States Army, the commandant of the United States Marine Corps, the chief of naval operations, the chief of staff of the United States Air Force, the Chief of Space Operations, and the chief of the National Guard Bureau.

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Joint Staff was not technically the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Joint Staff is a military headquarters staff based at The Pentagon composed of personnel from all the six armed services, assisting the chairman and the vice chairman in discharging their responsibilities.

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Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper tasked the Joint Staff with developing a Joint Warfighting Concept for the services by December 2020.

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Esper ordered the four services and the Joint Staff to create a new joint warfighting concept for All-domain operations, operating simultaneously in the air, land, sea, space, cyber, and the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Joint Staff includes the following departments where all the planning, policies, intelligence, manpower, communications and logistics functions are translated into action.

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Joint Staff includes the following departments where all the planning, policies, intelligence, manpower, communications and logistics functions are translated into action.

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